Question four. Why do I crave breads and sweets and have other cravings with food stuff that I just simply cannot do with art? Now there are several overriding reasons that we may crave certain foods. The most common ones are dysbiosis, Candida infection, incident and leptin resistance and certain nutrient deficiencies. What do I mean by dysbiosis? dysbiosis is the name for a disorder of our gut bugs.

Now we have many trillions of gut bugs that collectively weigh almost as much as our brain so you can just imagine how many little bacteria that are in our gut. And there are about 10,000 different species of gut bugs. And some sources suggest as many as 35,000 different species of Gag bags and this is important Because some species are very beneficial to the body, and some species have a detrimental effect on the body. So, obviously what we want, we want a higher ratio of the species that have a beneficial effect on the body and listed the species that have a detrimental effect. And some species are sugar feeders. And because they're sugar feeders, they actually cause us to crave sugar.

Whereas other species are effect they prefer fat. So what they do is they cause us to crave foods that are high in fat. Now, guidebooks not only have an influence on what we crave, but they actually affect how food tastes in our mouth. And this predisposes us towards certain food likes and dislikes. And of course, what is created here is a vicious cycle. The gap bags that crave sugars are thus feed more sugars and this results in damage To the single cell lining of the gut.

Now, the lining between the inside of our gut, and our blood supply, in actual fact, is only one tiny little cells thick, so it's extremely fragile. And because sugar feeding gut bugs are very pro inflammatory, the inflammation damages that cell lining. And this increases leakage from the gut, into the bloodstream, of toxins of the bacteria that actually reside in our gut, and also of food particles that should stay within the gut until they are properly digested. And what happens is that when the food particles all these toxins leak into the bloodstream, the body's immune system takes one look and freaks out, because it believes that the body is now under attack. So of course, the immune system goes up and in a situation where you have a chronic, overactive immune system. This may develop autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis for example, psoriasis, multiple sclerosis, these are autoimmune diseases.

So this is not a situation that when wants to even get close to Candida are also sugar feeding yeast and Candida infections leads to sugar and breed cravings. And a great way to see whether or not you have a Candida infection is just stick out your tongue. If your tongue has got a white coating on it, there's a very good chance that you have a Candida infection. And even one course of antibiotics will knock out the beneficial bacteria that control Candida. And this is why when you are prescribed a course of antibiotics by your primary health care practitioner, they should and very often they do put you on a course of probiotics as well.